I would say that terrorists are more lucky than intelligence services-definitely not more intelligent.
Consider the facts.Agencies do not know the terrorists, but they do know about the agencies,in fact their day to day operations thanks to media.
Terrorists are mingled with the law abiding citizens; you just can’t go and arrest somebody till a terrorist act is committed or you prove the intentions.
Even if arrested terrorists do have Rights!
Fact is Agencies have to be lucky at all times while terrorists need to be lucky only once.
In yesterday’s programme many listeners commented that profiling at airports would not work because the people who resort to terror would simply change their profile and stay one step ahead.
The calls for these extra security measures at airports came afterUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb on a plane bound for the US. The American intelligence and the British intelligence services are blaming each other for the blunder.
Bernard Harcourt on our show yesterday had the following to say about terrorist organisations: These are organised groups, these are forward-thinking, extremely rational in terms of activity planning strategy and figuring out where the weaknesses are.
Bernadette Atuahene says, I have been scratching my head trying to figure out how in the world Umar Abdulmutallab, a 23 year old Nigerian student, outsmarted homeland security and its Transportation Security Administration… he was just some punk kid who was brainwashed in Yemen and sent to do a job. This terrorist should have been no match for us!
This blogger, has questions the CIA tactics after it emeged that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian military officer last week in Afghanistan was a Jordanian double-agent, recruited by the U.S. intelligence. He asks wheather the CIA was caught in an al-Qaeda trap?
There is general feeling of a loss of faith in the intellegence services this blogger says, In the last decade, the ability of US intelligence services to distinguish between good intelligence and bad intelligence, to actually know when a threat was coming and counter it, have not been very good.
And Ralph Peters writes, Our terrorist enemies are out-thinking us. It’s not only embarrassing, but deadly.
Are terrorists one step ahead of the security services? Do you feel protected by the intelligence services?
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